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Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases ships, city structures, and Jedi Themepark Part 2
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has dropped its spring newsletter, with a few teases about the future of the game - in...
Star Trek Online reups its First Contact Day event today with returning activities and new rewards
While First Contact Day is technically on April 5th, players of Star Trek Online will be celebrating the fictional historic event between April 11th...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Elite Dangerous patches in a supercruise overcharge feature for its internet spaceships
If you assume that the word "supercruise" in Elite: Dangerous means "something that makes your ship go fast," you'd be correct. But what if...
The Daily Grind: What percent of your MMO gaming should be combat?
MMO combat is fun. It is. I love trying out combat skills, grouping with friends to take down bosses, and hearing the sound of...
The last remains of Perfect World Entertainment rebrand as Arc Games following Gearbox sale to Take-Two
Don't look now, but the chunk of Gearbox that MMORPG players cared about is changing its name.
Readers will recall that back in 2021, Embracer...
Starship Simulator’s Kickstarter unlocks VR, planetary landing, and alien structure stretch goals
The Kickstarter campaign for multiplayer internet spaceship sim Starship Simulator doesn't appear to be slowing down. As of the time of this writing, crowdfunding...
Star Citizen kicks off an updated Jumptown event and highlights more alpha 3.23 UI updates
Old salts of Star Citizen are probably familiar with Jumptown, a hidden drug fab that developed into a PvP hotspot that was then repurposed...
The Daily Grind: Do you play different MMORPGs for different content types?
A while back on the MOP Podcast, I was waxing on about housing and crafting and player cities in SWG Legends, when Justin asked...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming goes into Star Citizen’s Overdrive Initiative
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
The Stream Team: Taking a friend along for a ride in the Starship Simulator demo
MOP's Chris has gotten the keys to his own starship, so naturally he's going to be bringing his best friend out for a joyride!...
For Science: EVE Online’s Project Discovery initiative opens signups for mobile testing
At EVE Fanfest last fall, CCP Games announced that its latest Project Discovery push would essentially set EVE Online players to training AI in...
Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs
It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...
Starship Simulator is a Kickstarter new multiplayer space game about exploring a Milky Way replica
How do you simulate something that doesn't actually exist in real life yet? Well, if you're indie developer Fleetyard Studios, you start creating a...
Star Citizen highlights on-foot HUD updates arriving in Alpha 3.23
The features list for Star Citizen's Alpha 3.23 release continues to be the focus of CIG's regular video digests. This week, players are looking...
Elite Dangerous previews visual updates of summer’s Powerplay 2.0 while promising more details later
Elite: Dangerous fans likely remember that the start of February had big plans for the spaceship sandbox, including a reworking of the powerplay mechanic...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
EVE Online is running a ‘mass test’ of shadow fixes and other improvements today
How many of our EVE Online playing readers would like to test shadows? Then there's good news for you because CCP Games is scheduling...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.
